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| Title: | STATIC TIMING ANALYSIS OF MICROPROCESSORS WITH EMPHASIS ON HEURISTICS |
| Author: | Krishnamurthy, Sivasubramaniam T. |
| Description: | As designers build complex digital circuits with ever diminishing device sizes, there is a need to obtain fast circuits with low hardware overhead. Critical path is the longest sensitizable path in a digital logic circuit which determines the operating frequency of the circuit. Static timing analyzers enumerate critical paths in a circuit and determine the optimal operating frequency. This work presents a static timing analyzer that makes use of an ATPG technique based on the PODEM engine. To improve the efficiency of the technique, a partitioning scheme is used in the path sensitization subroutine to reduce the search space. The results from this implementation for the ISCAS ’85 and ’89 benchmarks demonstrates performance improvements. |
| Permanent Link: |
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1201299462
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/16192 |
| Date: | 2008 |
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